Lucky and Unlucky

@Deepak2J (1177)
India
April 1, 2013 1:22am CST
Currently, I am a Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student. Some of my friends gets better marks in exams, even if they are not good. They barely study. I don't know how ? Okay, I am an average student. But some are lower than me yet get better marks. I think maybe it's just that they are luckier than me. Not only that, many of my friends invested in different places and earned a quite bit of money. But, when I invested the company turned out to be a scam. I earned nothing. Isn't this make me unlucky and them lucky ? This happened 2 times in the span of 2 years.One company is turned out to be a scam and the other just shut down, I don't know why ? Now, I am not investing anywhere due to fear of losing again my parent's money.I am just studying, but still not getting a better grade than those lucky guys, who are getting equivalent to or more than me even in grades.
7 responses
• India
1 Apr 13
Sad to hear about this. We must be very careful while investing our money. As you mentioned you are not lucky and faced various problems due to it. Don't worry and never give up your hope. We can win our luck with our confidence.
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@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
1 Apr 13
Yeah
@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
1 Apr 13
Okay. Thanks
@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
You should not be competing with others but yourself. That is what my dad would always tell me. concentrate on making yourself better and not better than others.
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@ryanong (9664)
• Vietnam
1 Apr 13
i totally agree with you too, just be confident, just be ourselves...
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@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
1 Apr 13
I know. But It just feels bad when someone getting everything even if they are not worth that and you don't even if you are worth that. It just a sad and frustrating feeling.
@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
8 Apr 13
Someone once said to me: "You should never be jealous of people who seem to have more success than you, because you don't know what kind of secrets sorrows or problems that they have" I try to remember that because I think it is true that people who appear to have more success than me or appear to be luckier than me might have problems that I don't know about. When I look at them and look at their success I don't see the entire picture. Your friends might seem more sucessful than you in some ways, but you might luckier than them in other in other situations and maybe you have things that they don't have. It also depends on your defination of luck. You could say that you are lucky when you have success (get good marks without studying much, earn money etc) but if things always turn out well you don't get the chance to learn and grow. In some way I am not "lucky" compared to other people my age and I have had a difficult life, but I have learned something from all of my experiences. I think that you can always learn things from the bad things that happen. Intead of seeing yourself an unlucky you can focus on the things you have learned from those experiences.
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@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
8 Apr 13
You are completely right. I am agree. And whatever you said that's completely true. Thanks for sharing
@Paper_Doll (2373)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
I am sorry to hear about what happened but I don't think you are unlucky because you experience such things. I think that many people have experienced the same. You know that we are living in a world full of scammers so we really should be careful in dealing with people especially if you are going to invest huge money to that. Well, sometimes if we seek for this opportunity to earn huge in instant, instead of earning big, we loose more. So before investing we should consider many factors before going into it. We should not always be blinded with the fact that once we put our money here, we are going to earn huge here in instant. Because those are usually they tactics for people to join them. One of our neighbors invited me and my husband to join this profit sharing business they have. They say you can earn big and that their company can sustain. I will be earning more than twice of what I earned in a month. All I have to do is invest some money into it and let others join under me. But I did not join. My first reason is who can guarantee that this company will be there forever and that the money those people I will be recruiting will be returned? What if I invited all my relatives and then came a day that the company can no longer give what they promised. To whom those I have recruited will complain? Definitely, they will be looking for me. Many relationship will be affected. So I suggest that you see life on its other side. Don't think you are unlucky. Think positive and practice root cause analysis. What really went wrong? Was it really you or there are other reasons? If it is you, maybe it is time to think of attending some trainings to improve your skills or knowledge.
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@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
1 Apr 13
I should try better, I think. Anyway, THANKS
@cttolledo (5459)
• Legaspi, Philippines
2 Apr 13
I believe with luck but I also believe that nothing is impossible to get or reach what you want when you strive hard in life.. In reaching your dreams it is inevitable to encounter failure and rejection but instead of thinking how unlucky you are, its better to take that experience as a lesson for you to be a better person .
@cttolledo (5459)
• Legaspi, Philippines
7 Apr 13
Thanks for appreciating my response as the best one!
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@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
1 Apr 13
Hi, you should not get frustrated by some unsuccessful incidents. But you should not lose your hope. There is luck factor in our success but we can change our luck by hard work and efforts. You should trust on you and try to give better performance. You should concentrate only on studying and not on other things. Do one thing at a time. You shouldn't compete with others. Always think that better luck next time. This positive approach help you in being successful in life.
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@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
1 Apr 13
thanks
@ryanong (9664)
• Vietnam
1 Apr 13
umh, how to say...i tell you my story when i was in university. I never compare myself with the others students and in fact i didn't spend much time for studying, but i always got high marks, while my friend, she studied hard and wanted to have a higher marks than mine, but she could not get it. Do you know why? I didn't spend much time for studying, it doesn't mean i didn't study, i just mark some important things after classes and remember it, in preparing for an exam, i got out what is the important things of that course and studied it only. I didn't learn by heart all lectures. I think better we should not compare ourselves with the others, just be confident and try to improve skills in study. If we are better day by day, it is the success already...
@Deepak2J (1177)
• India
1 Apr 13
may be you are right, but don't you think she felt bad always like me. After all those guys I am talking smokes always drinks too much and goes to bar as well